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Just a year earlier hardbacks had been worth more than three times as much ase-books, according to the Association of American Publishers.

It lags behind Germany, which exports more than three times as much to China, though it does slightly better than Italy.

You could be doing three times as much business as you are now.

I am spending two or three times as much time as I used to on my English.

The product of this company is three times as much as that of that company.

That said, with gold trading at almost $900 an ounce now, the company is showing three times as much largesse as it did in 2000.

In rich Austria and Italy, women do at least three times as much housework and child care as men.

Monitoring revealed the baby's heart to be under three times as much stress when he or she slept alone.

The amount of trash dumped into the ocean every year weighs three times as much as the total amount of fish taken out.

Building the structures required three times as much concrete as was used to create France's Maginot Line, and cost twice as much.

Washed and bagged greens can be a time-saver, but they can cost three times as much as buying the same amount of a head of lettuce.

If what's left over weighs more than three times as much as the sun, it collapses forever, forming a black hole.

As a result, he was able to grow almost three times as much wheat on the same amount of land.

Today, a shortage of labour means that young women in their 20s, the elite of the migrant workforce, can earn three times as much, or more.

Most of my fellow interns had three times as much experience as me, and I couldn't help but wonder, "What am I doing here? "

Earlier this week, two American senators proposed legislation for three times as much non-military aid as Pakistan now receives.

And there is potentially three times as much material to contain in Fukushima as there was in Chernobyl.

The medical treatment cost me three times as much money as I could afford.

It produces three times as much as Japan, the second-placed country, and output has doubled over the last five years.

Yet its defence spending this year will be around $63 billion, three times as much as that of the new NATO members combined.

The people there will pay two or three times as much as they used to pay for a house.

Some Democratic members balked at the draft, which cuts spending three times as much as it raises taxes.

Growth is three times greater in emerging-market economics, but there's three times as much volatility.

Bibulous performance outstanding, is cotton products three times as much.

Thomas Cooper values a clever American lawyer at 3, 000 dollars, which is about three times as much as the value of a strong slave.

He is worth at least three times as much.

Regardless, per person, my fellow 310 million Americans and I use more than three times as much energy as more than 1. 3 billion Chinese.

Without it, we'd be stuck with DOM, which, despite using the same underlying functionality, requires, oh, three times as much code.

And the villagers still harvest three times as much rice as they did in the days of Mao.

Blonde hair can cost up to three times as much as dark hair.

It ships more than three times as much in exports to cash-rich oil producers as America does.

it discharges three times as much water as the st . lawrence.

I prepare a solution using powder from a bag and get two to three times as much in quantity.

Some ancient cities had two to three times as much water per person as many cities today.

a. I have spent three times as much time on this set of documents as on the first one.

Solid-state lighting available on the market today costs roughly three times as much as other lighting options, Brodrick says.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

Steel producers generate three times as much CO2 as the airline industry.

While Europeans on average spend $13 per park visit, Americans pay nearly three times as much.

As a result, four-year colleges receive three times as much federal money per student as community colleges.

This year they will contribute half of the globe's GDP growth, measured at market exchange rates, over three times as much as America.

My new glasses cost me three times as much as the last pair.

They spend three times as much on recreation as on education.

If he has to invest three times as much in his crop and the crop fails, he says, he will be buried in debt.

This means that gas bought in Louisiana for $4 per million British thermal units can be resold for three times as much in China.

The output of China is three times as much as that of India.

In modern Pakistan, meanwhile, men earn three times as much as equally qualified women.

It takes at least three times as much water to grow maize in India, for example, as it does in America or China (see second chart).

Even in China, where the economy has expanded by perhaps $500bn, banks have increased loans by almost three times as much.

The giant ate three times as much food asI did.

As we discussed last time, this means that it will cost us three times as much as before.

Or maybe three times as much blood.

By 2030, Indians will be producing twice as much as they are now; Chinese people three times as much.

In 2004, people ate 156 million metric tons of seafood, the equivalent of three times as much seafood per person than in 1950.

Some of the new rice types, for example, yield three times as much rice per hectare as traditional types.

It cost three times as much as I had expected.

In 2000, firms and their employees spent three times as much as unions.

In Vietnam, for example, he says the poorest households rely more than three times as much on poultry income than the richest households.

I did not run up debts, and spent three times as much as before I started playing the tables.

We need three times as much as we originally ordered.

It will cost three times as much as Big Boss.

Two men can do three times as much as one man.

Let them know that in some cases, a female takes three times as much a male takes.

By that time we shall produce three times as much grain as we did in 1999.

We have produced three times as much rice this year as last year. We have produced three times more rice this year than last year.

Cities and industries will demand more than three times as much water in developing countries.

This new coat cost me three times as much as the last one I bought two years ago.

This barrel can hold three times as much water as that one.

This computer costs three times as much as that one.

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